Lincoln County Leader.
J. . STEWART, Publisher.
TOLEDO... OREGON
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Law Against Purchasing Wives
Violated in Alaska.
A KEW RAILROAD PROJECTED.
Selecting: a Place to Establish a Col
ony of French Grape Growers
and Winemakers.
Work is booming at Mare Inland.
The Chinese at Boise, Idaho, refuse to
register.
The First National Bank of Helena,
Mont., hus been authorised to resume
business.
Los Angeles is to ran vans the city to
ascertain the wants of the unemployed
in distress.
The bill to establish a port of delivery
at Bonner's Ferry, Idulio, has passed
the Senate.
The pursuit of Chris Evans seems to
have been abandoned by the officers of
Fresno county.
The San Diego Ruperlor Court has
practically nullilied the ordinance creat
ing chaingangH.
Morel is said to le anxious to break
his partnership with KvaiiB, the bandit,
ana leave the country.
CougarB are reported plentiful on the
mountains back of The Dalles, having
been driven from the interior wilderness
by the lute storms.
The State Controller will include the
new counties in the distribution ot the
back taxes of the Southern 1'acilic Com
pany when they are paid.
Tho faculty of the Oregon State Uni
versity has passed a rule prohibiting
students from entering or frequenting
billiard halls and skating rinks.
It is understood at Mare Island that
Secretary Herbert has ordered all vessels
at the yard repaired without delay, in
cluding the monitor Mouadnock.
An estimate that the town sends $300,
COO away annually for ork products
alone is furnished to help on the Hpo
kitue home industry movement.
A special election is called at Seattle
for February to decide whether or not
the school district shall bond itself in
tho sum of (21)0,000 to make up out
standing warrants.
Thirteen pages have been torn from
- !ook II of tho probate records at Han
Jose. The presumption is that it wus
the work of some one who desired to de
stroy the record in the matter of a par
ticular estate.
Johnny Crow, aged fourteen, rescued
six children who had broken through
the ice on the ('arson river near Kmpiru.
The young fellow wiih nearly dead when
taken from tho water by those who ran
to his assistance.
The Hradstrcet Mercantile Agency re
ports thirty-three failures in the 1'acilic
( oast Stubs mid Territories for the past
week, as com pin ed with thirty-onu for
the previous week and twenty-four for
lie corrcspomling week 01 Irtl'.l,
There is now licing organised at Vic
toria, II. ('., a company of men to enter
the service of (Juccii l.iliuokuliuii, and
there are al ready 1110 on the roll. The
movement is beaded by It. Smart, son
of ex-Attorney Smart of Manitoba, anil
S. Sunsiim, a retired volunteer olllcer of
Victoria.
Judge Clark at I -oh Angeles has ruled
that Mrs. I.ucv C. GoodHpced in hereon
tent with General Mnnslfcld is in every
way entitled U be the guardian of her
mother's person and estate. The charges
iigaiust Mrs. Ooodspeed s moral charac
ter, ho says, are untrue, and have al
ways lieeu so.
A report from Yuma says that (icneral
(1. Amlrade of San Francisco and parties
representing t rench ami Scotch capital
ists have gone to the mouth of the Col
orado river for the purpose of selecting
a place where they can locate colony
of French grape growers and winemakers
of a thousand families,
UH'omutivcB were used to take the
trees oil' the large track lictwecu Alta
mill Towles, which had lieen thrown
there by a landslide. Ixjcoiuotivea were
placed on either side of the obstruction
and log chains leading irom inem las
teued to the trunks of the nines. Thev
were then drawn out of the landslide as
a dentist draws teeth.
(ioveruor Markham has authorised the
law ti rut of F.slce A Miller ot - San
Francisco to institute legal proceedings
for the pur pone of having the proHrty
of the late Thomas II. Illvthe escheat
to the State government. Markham is
of the opinion that the title to tho prop
erty of lllvtbu has failed for want of
hiers or next of kin, and for that reason
has reverted to the State.
A new mad is projected In Arizona.
It is to run from Howie on the Southern
1'acilic to (ilolic, 130 miles, passing
through the (iila Valley in Graham
county, one of the richest in Arixona,
w here now over 30,000 acres of land are
cultivated. This road will open up a line
agricultural valley. It runs seventy
miles down (iila n'ver, ending at Glolie,
one of tho richest iMiiing districts in the
Territory.
A large portion of the male population
ol Sitka have wives they have purchased.
This is contrary to law. Marshal l'orter
ol the Ataka district has Just instructed
his several deputies throughout the Ter
ritory to at once arrest every w hile man
violating the law. As a result of which
otllciul order nearly every man on lmard
the I'uiled States' steamer Tint is in
jail at Sitka. Hundreds of other arrests
are exccled.
The largest foreclosure ot a mortgage
ever executed in Untie county, ('ah,
took place the other day in tho suit ot
James D. Phclan et al., executors,
against D. M. Keavis and wife. Judg
ment was rendered lor the I'helan estate
lor :i&a,lHHi and lor C. W. Clarke, Jr.,
on a moitgngo for $125,000 against the
same parties. The land ordered to lie
sold embraces 8,00(1 acre of tho llnest
land in Hullo county.
Fx-lteeciver George I,. FiUhugh ol
the Walla Walla Savings Hank has made
his filial report. It appears Irom the
statement that $:H3,itu8 in note are
owned by the Umk, $134, 107.81 is now
in the bank and securities worth $2011,
641 K7 have I en pledged as collateral to
secure Iwrrowed money aggregating $01,.
014.76. An examination ol the county
records show that Fdmiston on the day
the bank closed deeded to that institu
Hon 4,1122.15 acres of land In Walla
Walla county, and it la said he made
similar transfer in I'matills and Co
lumbia counties. None of this la in
cluded in the statement of the assets ol
Hie bank made by the receiver.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Secretary Carlisle, it is said, has an
nounced there is no prospect that the
United States revenue-cutter Corwin
will again be sent to Honolulu with dis
patches for Minister Willis.
Senator White of California has intro
duced a bill appropriating (250,000 to be
expended under the direction of the Sec
retary of Agriculture to investigate and
determine upon the best plan to reclaim
the arid region.
The statement that extreme suffering
exists among the Indians of Pine Hidge
agency is discredited at the bureau of
India attain). Ulhcials ridicule the
assertions that the Indians are " dying
olf like sheep."
The bill appropriating (50,000 for the
monument of General John Stark passed
the Senate after some discussion, touch
ing mostly on finances, during which
Morgan said the country could not alibrd
to borrow money at 5 per cent to build
monuments.
There is no truth in the report that
the Hawaiian government has demanded
the recall of Minister Willis. It can be
stated upon authority that nothing of
the sort has been even hinted at in
official communications between the two
governments.
Secretary Carlisle has disallowed the
claim of Miss Phoebe Couzens of (0,000
for pay as Secretary of the Board of
l.ady Managers at the world's fair.
Mips Couzens claimed she was wrong
fully deposed from tho ollice, and sub
mitted a claim for the amount.
Delegate Rawlins of Utah asked unan
imous consent in the House for consid
eration of a bill permitting Salt Lake
Lake City to become indebted, including
the present indebtedness, to the amount
of a pur eent of its taxable valuation.
Without objection the bill passed.
A mcmlier of the Committee on Rules
said he believed the lirst thing the
House would take up after the tariff
would be the Hawaiian question, and
the bill to coin the seniorage silver in
the treasury vaults would bo compelled
to wait nntil the discussion over the
Hawaiian affair had been exhausted
It is understood a svndicate of New
York bankers are preparing an oiler for
tlie entire proposed n-sue ot (oU,(sju,uou
of Itonds at Carlisle's figures. Boston,
Chicago and Philadelphia bankers want
a bIiow at them, however, and to pre
vent them from overbidding it is likely
they will he admitted to the syndicate.
The national-bank note circulation,
which reached (200.500,000 during the
money stringency last summer, has de
clined to (204,500,000 and is daily grow
ing smaller. During December it de
creased (2,422,000, and so far this month
$1,306,000 in lawful money to redeem
the banks' notes when presented have
lieen dejiosited in the Treasury. Uy
law the reduction of bank-note circula
tion is limited to $3,000,000 a month.
Senator Vilas slated he would protect
against the designs on the award medal
of the World's Columbian Fxposition.
He secured tho proofs from the Phila
delphia mint and on one side of the
medal it was discovered the design was
that of a stalwart specimen of manhood,
holding in his right hand a lighted torch,
in the left a shield. Nearly all the
Senators condemn the design, ami some
other figure will probably be substi
tuted. Chairman Ctimmiiiga of tho Naval
Committee is preparing a report on Dol
man's resolution calling for an investiga
tion of the system of awarding premi
ums to contractors for building govern
ment ships. The report will bo ad Verne
to proceeding with the investigation on
tho ground that there is no testimony
tending to substantiate the general
charges. The resolution charged bv im
plication a general collusion between the
contractors and on hers ot the Navy 1)0'
partmcnt.
Tho House Committee on Labor has
ordered a favorable report upon Mc-
( ami s resolution authorizing the Coin
missioner of Lalsir to investigate and
report Umn tho ell'ect of tho uso of ma
chinery niton liilsir and the cost of pro
duction; the relative productive power
of baud and machinery lalstr; the cost
of manufacturing with machine siwer
and the ell'ect upon wages, and the use
ol machinery operated by women and
children, ten thousand dollars is an
propriated to enable the Commissioner
to carry out uio provisions ol me resotu
turn. Unofficial Information has been re
ceived in Washington of another inci
dent in connection w ith the imprison'
mentof Mrs. Maybrick, the American
woman serving a lite sentence In r.nir
laud for the Hiisnnihg of her husband
in LiverHKil. The report comes Irom
government sources in Umdon, Put an
Jiears to have been carefully concealed
rom publicity there. Tho story as re
ceived hero has it that Mrs. Maybrick
was discovered bleeding profusely and
churned to have had a hemorrhage.
Prison olllcials, however, reisirted to
the government that she bail dcliU'
erately
cut herself internally with glass
Tho House Committee on Public Lands
has decided to report adversely three
bills, vii. : Representative Flvuu's hill
(or tho relief of settlers on public lauds
in i 'k lalionia ; Kcprcscnlat ive Hart man
bill t ) susand tho provisions of the
mining laws requiring assessment work
on quartx-lodo mining claims for the
year I Mint, and lMcgato Joseph a lull to
establish an additional land ollice in
New Mexico, to lie know n as the Socorro
land district. 1 ho committee ordered a
favorable roort on Representative Me
liae's bill, amending a section of tbe
Revised Statutes so that it shall Ihi law
ful for tho Commissioner of the general
land ollice to sell for not less than ('.' 50
per acre any isolated tract of the public
domain which it would bo provcr to sell
alter thirty days' notice.
The report of tho commission at
Hintcd to make a treaty w ith the Yank
tan trilie of Sioux Indiana of Bouth
Dakota was laid ladore the Senate re
cently, accompanied by the draft of a
hill Intended to carry' the agreement
into ell'ect. Under this agreement the
Indians cede to tho United States all
the unallotted lands in the Stale ol
South Dakota, the Cnitcd States to pav
the triN- (iMl.OOO, (100,000 to U dis
tributed at once per capita ami the re
mainder to Ih held in trust lor twenty
live years, provided that if the needs of
the Indians require it certain amounts
hall be paid annually, but In no case
more than (20,000 in aiiy one year. The
sum paid for this laud is about (:1 (i'."v
per sere, and the price at which the
land shall be opened to settlers is re
commended to lie $3.75 er acre,
Tho rumor that evtjueen Llliuokalani
is about to bring suit against the United
States (or a large sum of monev, basing
her claim (or damages iisin the Presi
dent's recent Hawaiian luc.'sage and
Secretary (iresham's letter, has created
a great deal of interest in otlicial circles.
A suit cannot ho brought by an individ
ual against the government, and there
is no method of procedure through the
courts by which the ex-ueen could pre
sent her claim. The onlv iimrw l.ililo
kalaul ran pursue is to submit her claim
against the I'nitcd States. This Con
ress would have to approve before the
claim could he adjusted bv the Court of
Claims. In (ad, tho only recourse of
the ex-tjiiecn is to Congress, where In
view of her present unsipularity she
eouiu scarcely expect to meet with satis
(action or success.
EASTERN MELANGE.
A Methodist Minister Confesses
That He is a Murderer.
FEEDING WHEAT TO THE HOGS.
An Approximation of tbe Gross
Earnings of tbe Chicago City
Railways for 1U93.
Congress is costing tbe country (8,000
a day.
Gambling-houses have been closed by
the Chicago authorities.
Fl Paso, Tex., is excited over a rich
strike ol gold in the neighborhood.
There ia a movement in the Ohio Leg
islature to tax certain classes of street
cars.
A new oil well near Fostoria, O., flows
l,3:i barrels a day, and the section is
wild.
The Boston subscription fund for the
relief of tbe unemployed amounts to
(40,020.
The municipal expenses of Chicago
last year were (422,170 more than the
receipts.
The opposition to tacking the internal
revenue bill onto the tarilf bill is getting
stronger.
The Chleairo papers call the San Fran-
cisco Midwinter Exposition a "dainty
little fair."
Five Kansas counties have Comoro
mined with the Atchison Company on
UIO lUA qilCUllOII.
Many farmers are feeding wheat to
ineir nogs in western Texas rather than
sell it at 50 cents a bushel.
The gross receipts of the Illinois Cen
tral for December were $1,702,000, a de
crease oi I lui.uuu irom ihuz.
The erstwhile World's Fair hotels of
Chicago have been changed into Hals,
and l,iioo oi them are now occupied.
The total yield of wool in this country
last year amounted to 304, 150,006 pounds,
the largest American clip ever raised.
Philadelphia's School of Industrial
Art is holding an exhibition of laces.
There are 2,000 pieces in the exhibition.
Recent census figures 'show that the
population of the city of Washington
lias increased 50,000 during the past
year.
Attorney-General Olney has decided
that Chinese laborers may legally go
through this country to any country of
destination.
Among the unemployed are 15,000
men ami boys who are waiting for the
IIudoii river to freeze over, bo that ice
cutting may begin.
The mcinlernhip of tho Boston Fruit
and Produce Kxchange has jumped to
500; new llelds of enterprise were
broached tho past season.
An attempt by the Carnegie Steel
Company to roll a six-inch beam of alu
minium at Homestead has failed, but
another trial will be made.
Nova Scotia is suffering (rom a decline
of the wooden shipping industry. The
registry of the province shows a shrink
ago in tho last year of nearly 50,000
tuns.
Tho dilferenco in ages between the
oldest and the youngest United States
Senator is forty-four years. The oldest
Senator is a Republican; the youngest
is a Democrat.
The Kansas Supremo Court has made
a decision that where tho holder of a
mortgage assigns it to a non-resident to
avoid taxation he cannot collect the debt
by legal process.
Theodore P. Haughey, President of
the Indianapolis National Hank, who
was Indicted on 107 counts on embezzle
ment, forgery and hank-wrecking, is af
flicted with insanity.
A preliminary fund of (200,000 has
been pledged by business houses in
Atlanta, (ia.. for the "Cotton States and
International reposition," which it is
proposed to hold in that city in 1805.
One dollar from Washington to Balti
more is the promise of tho projectors of
the proiiosed electric road. 1 ho 1 resi
dent of tho company (dates that the
road will bo in operation next Septem
ber. The Atlanta Exjiosition will Kssihiy
lie graced bv a pipe tower that from
plans made by D. S. Paul, a plumber,
will measure 1,150 feet in height. It is
intended to be higher than the Eiffel
tower.
It seems incredible, but it is a fact,
that men cannot bo hired in Chicago to
work on tho drainage canal at wages of
15 cents an hour. The number of the
unemployed in estimated to reach into
the tens ol thousands.
A Now York charity this w inter is a
coal and food depot, where bread, tea
and coal are sold at cost. It ia said J.
I'iernt Morgan furnished (50,000 to
run ii. Aooui -,uw unemployed nave
used its advantages thus far.
The lire and life Insurance companies
of Hartford have declared January. 18114.
dividends to the amount of ftlNljtlOO, an
compared with (700,000 for 1803. The
tire insurance company dividends were
$506,1100, tho same in both years.
County Clerk O'Connor of (iarlleld
COUtltV. 5iell.. WUHllefi'iiliHl At the Novum.
ler election by one vote, and when his
succciihiui opHiient attempted to take
IKissession of theolllceO'Connerchanged
tho combination of the tafo lin k and re
fines to open it until his contest for the
ollice is ended.
Fmploves ot the Santa Fe from La
Junta, Col., have informed (ioveruor
Waite they have received no salary since
last October, and many ol the men and
families are on verge of starvation. The
wages for November and IHvciiiImt, thev
ay, have lieen promised at different
times, hut in every instance the pay
(ailed to come.
William Hcnshaw was brutally mur
dered thrve years ago near the northern
boundary of Wavne county, Ind., and
now Rev. Benjamin Baldwin, a Method
ist minister who formerly occupied a
pulpit there and is now at Trov. ()., has
made a confession of the murder. He
wa jealous ot the attention of Hcnshaw
to the girl he loved.
At PomeiMV, O., a IhhI of tire on the
tile of the old Clifton nail works is an
acre in extent. It is sixteen (eet thick
with a thin crust, through which the
tlatues burst out and light up the town
at night. The gas (rom it makes life a
burden to the inhabitants. It has lieen
burning since last April, having been
darted by a great conflagration then.
The gross earning of the Chicago citv
railwavs during 18H3 'approximated (.,'
jM.OoO. The net earning approximated
2,IM,000, or in the neighborhood of 22
to 2.1 per rent on the capital of 'i,OV.
000. The gross earning during the last
(our months of the World's Fair averaged
20.000 day, or $kXi.(.J a month, mak
ing the huge aggregate showing of ('.',
400,000 lor 120 day.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Cairo is to have a trolley line.
Scotland is to develop its gold.
France bad 300 strikes last year.
There is now an anti-tobacco crusade
in France.
Drought baa ruined the maize crop in
Argentine.
Serious riots are in progress at Car
rara, Italy.
A large force of Italian troops have
been sent to Palermo.
Cashier May of the Bank of England
defaulted for 130,000.
Austrian iron producers will limit pro
duction for three years.
The Belgium Diet has rejected the mo
tion for universal and equal suffrage.
The annual civil list or salary paid to
King Humbert of Italy is about $3,000,
000. France will begin this year tbe con
struction of thirty-two war ships of all
classes.
Diphtheria has killed nearly every
child in the government of Saratotf,
Russia.
A long-distance telephone will soon be
put into operation between Berlin and
Stockholm.
It is estimated that in tbe whole of
Europe over 000,000 women hold public
appointments.
The amount of gold and silver bullion
in the Bank of France at the present
time is irj,DY8,bM.
The cartoon " Bismarck in Berlin "
has got its publisher into jail as alibeler
oi Chancellor (Japrivi.
The iron masters of Austria and Hun
gary have agreed to renew the iron ring
lor another three years.
Eight cars loaded with human hair ar
rived in Paris recently, consigned to
dealers in that merchandise.
So far as murder and robbery are con
ccrned, Sicily and Corsica are the two
worst countries on the globe.
A commission has been appointed by
the government of Cape Colony to in
quire into the leprosy question.
The new siinplon tunnel from Brieg in
dvviUunaiid to ineaa- in littiy wiii be
twelve and one-halt miles long.
The London Times apologizes for the
methods of the Bank of Kngland, and
says that they are being improved.
For the coming Paris Exposition the
history of gardening from the most an
cient days is to be illustrated in gardens
r :n..
ni t eiBuuien.
Irish members of Parliament will be
asked to prevent the transfer of Anglo-
American mails Irom Uueenstown to
Southampton.
The Russian censUB returns for 1893
show 124,000,000 population. It is be
lieved that these hgures are smaller than
the actual population.
The Sultan has conferred the Grand
Cross of tho Imperial Order of the Med
jidie upon Mr. Maxim, the inventor of
the quick-firing guns bearing bis name.
A special American building, contain
ing 20,500 square feet of space available
to exhibitors, will be a feature in the
coming Industrial Exposition at Ant
werp. Tho inhabitants of Kio are heartily
tired of war, and the epidemic raging
there makes a desire for peace all the
stronger on the part of tho citizens gen
erally. Excavations in Palestine go to show
that the hot-air blast, which has been
credited to be the invention of Nelson
in 1S28, was used 1,400 years before
Christ.
In Home they think four inches of
snow a terrible fall, and telegraph the
incident of the storm alt over the world
witli the added information that "street
traffic is impeded."
Tho Kroner Bros., until recently o(
tho -Col fa publishing house, Stuttgart,
have finished printing Bismarck's mem
oirs in six volumes. The memoiis will
be withheld until after the Prince's
death.
Emperor William has taken Bteps to
have milk produced on his (arms at Pots
dam sold in Berlin. Carts bearing his
name may be seen in the streets of the
capital, the drivers of which retail the
II u id to any one.
Tho colfee crop in Nicaragua is suffer
ing, and much of it has been lost through
the scarcity of pickers, who have gone
with the troops. For lack of men to do
the work the authorities are pressing
women into service.
The Cuniird Steamship Company has
ordered the laying down of two new
cargo steamers. Each vessel will be of
0,000 tons burden. They will bo built
by the U)iidon and Glasgow Engineering
nna iron Miip isiuuiing uompany.
The most Important point agreed upon
is that t ranee lias not only reached the
highest iKissible point of military devel
opment, but that she cannot much
longer maintain it without sacrificing
the llnancial superiority which she now
enjoys.
An outbreak of mouth and footdisease
in tho central slaughtering houses of
Hamburg led the police to order that all
pigs and cattle destined for market must
be killed, and further exports of cattle
and pigs were prohibited until the dis
ease is pronounced extinct.
Mr. Maskelino of the Egyptian Hall,
Uindou, is going to issue a volume on
Modem Methods of ( heating at Games
of Chance ami Skill." It w ill constitute
an exHWuie of the methods and devices
employed in cheating at the present day
and a revelation of tho Bccrets of the
modern gaming sharp.
Mile. Humholt. a famous court beautv
in the reign of King Ixmis Phillipim, has
just died in Paris at the ago of 87. For
many years she lived in abject wretched
ncss in a garret ami passed olf as a beg
gar, but after her dentil a valuable col'
lection of pictures was discovered in the
garret and some thousands of pounds in
londs and bank sewed up in her mat
tress. Theodore Uunyon, United States Am
bassador to Germany, w ishca to contra
dict the newspaper' statement that at
the Emperor's New Year's reception he
wore a uniform not authorize! by his
irovornnient. lie wore the uniform of a
United States Major-General, he said, in
aecordaiii-e with an act passed bv Con
gress in ISM, permitting a Cnited'Statcs
representative to wear at ceremonies the
uniform of the highest grade that he
held in the armv.
IVm't rave and storm Uvause the boy
wants some time to tinker; he may as
tonish you w ith some of his work.
Don't expect the Kiy to maintain an
angelic disositioti if after working hard
all day he is obliged to eat at the sec
ond table.
IVm't continue to treat the bov as if
be had no sense, but consult with, him
occasionally ; he may possibly know
more than yuo do.
lVu't give the Kit a lamb or calf to
raiM w liicti would have died if he had
not attended to it and let it grow up to
iv mm snccp or cow .
MIDWINTER FA1K.
The Time for the Ceremonial
Opening Decided Upon.
EVERYTHING WILL BE BEADY.
Short Addresses to be Made by Gov.
ernor Karkbam, Mayor Ellert
and M. H. de Young.
California Midwinter Interna- )
tiosal Exposition. Department y
or Publicity and Promotion. )
iWMkly Circular Letter-No. 10.
It has been definitely decided that the
official ceremonial opening of the Cali
fornia Midwinter International Exposi
tion shall take place on Saturday, Jan.
27. This decision has been reached after
a careful consideration of all the cir
cumstances and there is full assurance
on the part of those who are in charge
of the preparations that everything will
be in readiness at that time. The great
fire at the Columbian Exposition on the
night of Jan. 8 did not daaage the ex
hibits intended for transfer to San Fran
cisco, except that a few of the cases in
which they were packed were pretty
well drenched with water. Lucidly,
however, the contents of the cases were
not injured, and, as a matter of fact,
such a very small proportion of the Mid
winter display remained unshipped at
the time of the fire that the delay will
not be aggravated on its account. Be
fore this letter is read the last carload of
exhibits will hare left Chicago for San
Francisco, and before that time also, the
scores of other carloads which are now
on the way to San Francisco will have
been unloaded in the Sunset City and
placed in position in the different build
ings. in which they have been assigned a
location.
These buildings are beginning to at
tract from visitors the praise they justly
merit. Their rapid growth was but one
subject of wonder in the progress of this
gTeat enterprise. The arrangement of
the vast number of exhibits with which
their interiors are to be embellished is,
of course, another wonderful operation,
but meanwhile the development of the
Ideas of the architects and the develop
ment at the same time of the general
scheme of color which is being worked
out in all the buildings comprises still
another field for wonder and admiration.
Charles Graham, the well known artist,
la director of color at this Midwinter
Exposition, and be is working out in
this connection one of the prettiest pic
tures that the world has ever seen, with
a group of architectural palaces set in a
frame of evergreen foliage and against
the background of dark hills and sunfty
California sky. " Pretty as a picture
the first comment that comes from the
lips of visitors. " Wonderful to behold "
will be the inevitable sequel to the orig
inal utterance.
The concessional features, having
made haste to get ready for Midwinter
hay-making, will all be ready by the
27th, unless there may be a single excep
tion in the case of the gTeat electric
tower, work on which can scarcely be
completed inside of three or four weeks,
The machinery plant which, of course,
includes the electric lighting arrange
ments, will be all in readiness by the
day set and will be utilized on a general
Bcale for the first time on that occasion,
The only previous occasion when the
trcct decorations of San Francisco ap
proached the t'rundeur which will be at
tained on Jan. 2 7 v us when President
Harrison paid a visit to the Pacific
Coast, but tho arrangements already
maue are emphatically in evidence of an
intention on the part of the citizens of
Sim Francisco to outdo every effort they
have made in this line. It is part of tha
plan of the Exposition management that
there shall lie a grand street parade
through the principal thoroughfares of
tho city, and thero is already no little
controversy over the line of march.
the wishes of tho citizens were to be ac
ceded to, tho procession would have to
move through every street and the Ex
position grounds would never be reached.
A happy compromise will undoubtedly
be effected, however, and public and pri
vate buildings on the route of the pro
cession will be a blaze of bunting and a
sea oi color.
Governor Markliam will declare the
day a legal holiday. Mayor Ellert will
issue a proclamation closinc all munici.
pal offices, ns far ns possible, and calling
upon the, business men of the city to
ciose i neir stores, i lie r ationai Guard
will turn out in full force, and every
civic and fraternal society in the city
will participate iu the parade. There
will be more bands of music than have
ever been seen in a San Francisco street
parade, and if there is not a bigger turn-
out of citizens, in the city and at the
Exposition grounds as we'll, than has
ever been called forth by any demonstra
tion on the I'aeiho Coast, the expecta
tions of thousands of those who have
judged the temper of the community
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iiieomciai opening ceremonies will
take place on the grandstand which is
now being erected for that purpose, and
ior utilization aiterword in connection
with athletic sports on the Recreation
Grounds. This stand will accommodate
i,ow people and the populace can b .
commodated on the greensward in front
oi it to the number of 100.000.
There will be short addresses bv Gov
ernor Markham, Mayor Ellert and Di
rector General de Young. Mrs. de
Young will press the button that shall
set the machinery in motion. The ora
tion of the day will be delivered by Gen
eral V. H. L. Barnes, the orator par
excellence of the Pacific Coost, and the
exercise will conclude with a rendition
of "America, played by the united
bands of the Expoition, in which the
voices of the entire assemblage will join,
and to which there will be a great gun
aiwunma:uietit from the throata of a
battery of artillery stationed upon the
Eiivsition grounds. These are the gen
eral rdans for the. official ocenina" cere
nioine. It u expects that the crowa
In attendance on that occasion will more
than eial that which witnewej the
ceremony of breaking ground, when
fully ,3,1100 people gathered on tbe bit
of wilderno where, in four short
mouths, a veritable city of palace has
Un created.
A popuUr sulwoription ia being raised
at Carson for the fifteen-rear-old hero
ho saved the live of six children at
Empire-, swimming forty feet under the
ice with one of them.
THE PORTLAND MARKETS.
Whi at Valley, 92 Wc; Walla Walla,
80i381c per cental
provision.
Eastikn Smoeid Meats and Lard
Hams, medium. 12(2 13c per pound:
hams, large, llH12ac; hams, picnic,
US 12c; breakfast bacon, 13(2 15c;
short clear sides, ll13c; dry salt sides,
10(gllc; dried beet hams, iz,'ii3c;
lard, compound, in tins, Qil0ic per
pound; pure, in tins, ll131-sc; pigs'
eet, BOe.fd.&o; pigs' leet, 409, j.w.
BOPS, WOOL AMD HTDKS.
Hops '93s, choice, 1516c per pound;
medium, 1012c; poor, 5(g7c.
Wool Valley, 10 lie per pouna;
C ruDaua. ll(12c: Eastern Oregon, 6
10c, according to quality and shrinkage.
Hides Dry selected prime, 6c; green,
Ealted, 60 pounds and over, 3oC ; under
60 pounds, 2(2 3c ; sheep pelts, shearlings,
10(tfl6c; medium, 20(2 35c; long wool,
30 60c; tallow, good to choice, 32.3,L2c
per pound.
LTV AND DRES8ID MIAT.
Bekf Top steers, $2.50(3.00; fair to
good steers, $2.00(22.25; cows, $2.00
2.25; dressed beef, 4(g5c per pound.
Mutton nest sheep, tz.oo; ewes,
$2.25; lambs, $ .
Hoos Choice heavy, f-t.OOGS-J.zs; me
dium, $4-00; light and feeders, $3.90
OO'H; dressed, 67c per pound.
Val small choice, oc; large, 4c per
pound.
CORDAGE.
Manilla rope. lJ-i in. cir. and up, 10' oc ;
manilla rope, 12-thread, diain., lie;
manilla rope, 6 and 9-thread, xi and 6-16
diam., ll2c; manilla bail rope, in coils
or on reels, 10'c; manilla lath yarn,
tarred, 9c ; manilla hawser-laid rope well
borinir. etc.. 13c: manilla transmission-
of-power rope, 14c; manilla paper twine,
lie; manuia spring twine, i-ic; sisai
rope, V4 in. cir. and upward, 7c; sisal
rope, 12-thread, diam.. 7c; sisal
rope, 6 and 9-thread, 1 and 6-16 diam.,
8c; sisal lath yarn, tarred, 7c; hop-vine
twine, tarred, 7c ; sisal paper twine, c,
PLODB, FEED, ETC.
Floub Portland, $2.75; Salem, $2.75;
Cascadia, $2.75; Dayton, $2.75; Walla
Walla, $3.00; Snowhake, $2.80; Corval-
lin, !.Kfi; Pendleton, 2.5; Graham,
$2.40; BUperhne, $2.25 per barrel.
Oats rate, 33 34c per bushel ;
gray, 313Zc; rolled, in bags, $6.zo(g
6.50; barrels, $0.75(27.00; in cases, $3.75.
Millstuffs 15 ran, $13 16; shorts,
$1516; ground barley, $1618; chop
leed, $15 per ton ; whole teed barley, bO
70c per cental; middlings, $23(228 per
ton; chicken wheat, 05c$1.15 per
cental.
Hay Good, $1012 per ton.
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Butter Oregon lancy creamery, 30
32c; fancy dairy, 2527c; fair to
good, 2022c; common, 1017)aC per
pound ; (Jalilorni i, 00ooc per roll.
Cheese Oregon, 10 13c; Califor
nia, c; Young America, 1215c;
Swiss, imported, 3032c; domestic, 16
18c per pound.
Eoos Oregon, 17c per dozen; East
ern, nominally the same,
Poultry Chickens, mixed, quoted at
$3.50 top price per dozen ; ducks, $4.50
6.00; geese, $8.50 9.00; turkeys, live,
IJ'-jC per pound ; dressed, 14c.
VEGETABLES and fruits.
Vegetables California cabbage, 1 '4'c
per pound; potatoes, Oregon, 60 76c per
sack; onions, $1.25 per sack; sweet pota
toes, Z'.jC per pound; California celery,
860c; artichokes, $1.00 1.10 per
dozen; California lettuce, 2025c per
dozen; cauliflower, $2.o per crate, 90c
per dozen; parsley, 25c per dozen;
sprouts, $1.00 1.25 per box; string
beans, in 18c per pound; asparagus
12l?c per pound; Los Angeles tomatoes
$2.00 per box.
Fruits Sicily lemons, $5.005.50 per
box; California fancy. $3.50 4.00: com
mon, $2.50 3.00; bananas, $1.503.00
per bunch ; Honolulu, $1.502.50 ; Cali
fornia navels, $2.75ii3.60 per box; seed
lings. $2.00 2.75: Mexican. $3.50 3.75:
Japanese, $1.752.00; apples (buving
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ioc; late winter pears, 6o80c per box,
canned goods.
Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted.
$1.75 2.00; peaches, $1.85 2.00; Bart
lett pears, $1.75 2.00; plums, $1.37
1. do; strawberries, $-'.o.45; cherries,
$2.252.40; blackberries, $1.852.00;
laspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25
2.80; apricots, $1.65. Pie fruits,
assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums,
$1.001.20; blackberries, $1.251.40per
dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted,
$3.16 3.50; peaches, $3.50 4.00; apri
cots, $3.504.00; plums, $2.753.00;
blackberries, $4.254.60; tomatoes,$1.10.
Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.40; 2s,
$2.10; chipped, $2.35; lunch tongue, Is,
$3.50; 2s. $6.75; deviled ham, $1.50
2.75 per dozen.
Fish Sardines, Js, 76c$2.25; s,
$2.15 4.50; lobsters, $2.30 3.50; sal
mon, tin 1-lb tails, $1.25 1.60; flats,
$1.75;2-lbs, $2.252.50; -barrel, $5.60.
stapli gboceriis.
Coffee Costa Rica, 23'c; Rio, 22'$
23c; Salvador, 23lsc; Mocha, 26J
28c; Arbuckle's, Columbia and Lion,
100-pound cases, 25 30c per pound.
Dried Fruits 1893 pack, Petite
prunes, 68c; silver, 1012c; Italian,
8 10c; German, 68c; plums, 6 10c:
evaporated apples, 8 10c; evaporated
apricots, 1516c; peaches, 1012jac;
pears, 7llc per pound.
Salt Liverpool, 200s, $15.50; 100s,
$16.00; 60s, $16.60; stock, $8.50 9.50.
Syrup Eastern, in barrels, 40 55c;
in half barrels, 42 57c; in cases, 35
80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg; California,
in barrels, 20 40c per gallon ; $1.75 per
keg.
Suoab D,4ly'c; Golden 0,4'oc; extra
C, 43.c; confectioners' A, 5lsc; dry gran
ulated, bc; cube, crushed and pow
dered, 67,c per pound ; J-c per pound
discount on all grades for prompt cash;
maple sugar, 16 16c per pound.
Rk k No. 1 Sandwich Island, $4.75
5.00 ; no Japan in market.
Beans Small white, No. 1, 2c; Xo.
2, 2lc; large white, 2c; pea beans,
-'V: P'nk, 2'uc; bayou, 2V; butter,
3c; Lima, 34c per pound.
Picki.ks Barrels, No. 1, 2830c per
gallon; No. 2, 2028e; kegs, 6s, 85c per
keg ; half gallons. $2.75 per dozen ; quar
ter gallons, $1.75 per dozen.
Kaisins London lavers, boxes, $1.75
2.00; halves, $2.00 2.25; quarters,
$2.25 2.75; eighths, $2.503.00. Loose
Muscatels, boxes, $1.50; fancy faced,
$1.75; bags, 3 crown, 4S,5e per pound;
4 crown, 6i5lsc. Seedless Sultanas,
boxes. $1.75 2.00; bags, 6 8c per
pound.
Si'ii-Ks Whole Allspice, 18(S20e per
ponnd; cassia, ltl'SISc; cinnamon, 22
40c; cloves, 18i:i0e; black pepper, 20
2fV; nutmeg, 75 ji 80c.
Two Singular Mayor.
A former mayor of Concord, Fla., late
ly died in Cabarrus poorhouse. The
town of Concord has only contributed
two white male to the poorhouse, and
ihe other oue was also an ex-mayor.
Marion Free Lance.
Soil iu Egypt is tilled by exactly the
same kind of plow that was used there
3,000 years ago. The furrow made are
extremely shallow, and the clod are
further broken np with a big wooden
cudgel
FARM AND GARDEN.
New Kinds of Grain?, Vegeta
bles, Plants, Flowers
AXD TREES ALL THE RAGE.
Many of These New Creations Are
Produced by Hybridizing In
discriminate Mixing.
The following is clipped from Farm.
Field and Fireside : We have noticed in
recent years increased efforts to intro
duce not only new varieties of our old
standard grains, vegetables, plants,
flowers and trees, but to get new kinds.
or at least those new to this country or
special locality. Many of these are new
creations produced by crossing or hy
bridizing, and are in effect new ; others
are introduced from foreign countries.
Some of these are not successful at first,
but eventually become acclimated : still
others are old to one section, but new to
another. All our Western forage and
seed plants are new to this country.
Their name is legion, and there are great
possibilities in them; much we think to
gain by crossing. Each has peculiar
characteristics, and a plant containing
the best of all is likely to be the result.
A word of caution will not be out of
place. Do not allow indiscriminate mix
ing, or a fairly good plant may be dete
riorated ; especially do not allow a cross
ing of the saccharine sorghum with the
non-saccharine, as its use for syrups will
be spoiled. Every section has its pecu
liar needs in a plant; so let the crossing
be with this ideal plant in view. These
forage plants are unknown to many sec
tions. Some do not need them, but
many will find them profitable introduc
tions. The forage is much better than
corn, and the analysis of the seed shows
it to be as valuable, though in yield,
ease of handling and feeding it will not
compare with corn ; but it might be prof
itably used as a change ot leed, especi
ally when a farmer wishes to use chopped
feed. We especially urge every poultry
raiser to raise them extensively, especi
ally the Kaffir corns. Barley is not a
well-known crop. We never saw but one
crop growing until we bought seed the
present year; did not even know what
the grain was. With no experience in
raising it we are well pleased with it.
and shall grow it largely next year. We
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tiuiiK ib win ue more urouiuoiu ior norse
feed than oats in this section. Time
may change our opinion as we find out
its disadvantages, but at present we
should recommend it for trial here.
Broom corn is in its favored home here,
and it will be raised largely ; but with
out experience we judge the harvesting
of it will interfere with wheat seeding
here, and that the wheat raiser will give
it over to tbe specialist. In our dry cli
mate there is not so much care needed
in harvesting, nor so much storage room,
as it can be bulked without danger ; but,
as the profits in such crops depend
largely on the finer color and shape that
it goes upon the market, the best success
is attained by a specialist, by which we
mean one who has a special liking for
certain lines of work. For some years
past it has been a very profitable
crop, but there is likely to be a reaction
and low prices for a few years, as the
acreage has in consequence of present
prices been largely increased. Cow peas
are an old crop to your Southern readers,
but new to all others except as a fertil
izer, plowing under as a green crop. We
think they will be raised largely by those
who can give special time to the harvest
ing and by those who have land especi
ally adapted to their raising. We have
written of land here that we thought
specially adapted to them, and now we
know of one trial acre or a little less that
produced twenty-one bushels. The new
latbvrus sylvestris has not proved suc
cessful here, but on the sandy lands of
Wisconsin it is reported a very product
ive iorage piant.
KEEP YOfR FOWLS TAME.
The Poultry World says : Yes, keep
your fowls tame, for yon" will find von
are a gainer thereby. There are far "too
many who do not make it a point to
keep their fowls so tame that they will
readily take food from the hand, and
consider such a thing a useless expendi
ture of time; but it is not, for tame
birds will be more contented, will lay on
flesh and fat faster, and will lav more
eggs than those which are kept constant
ly in a semi-wild state. Kindness is
never lost on anything, no matter how
small the object may be. Look at the
stock breeder who is noted for the big
quality of his stock, and vou will never
see him harsh with his animals, but at
all times kind and considerate of their
comfort and well-being. He never beats
them or speaks harshly to them, for he
well knows that such a course is very
detrimental to their well-being. As it
is with larger animals so is it relatively
true of fowls ; if you at all times exer
cise kindness toward them, they will
doubly repay for all your care and kind
attention.
IlOn- TO KEEP PUMPKINS.
A writer in an exchange thinks to
keep pumpkins in a fresh state for ten
months or a year is a very simple mat
ter. A person has onlv to select those
that are sound and well ripened. Ilan
die them carefully so as not to bruise the
flesh : wash and wipe dry, and then store
them in a dry warm room. Let each
pumpkin have a separate rest; that is,
do not pile one on top of another. Keep
the temperature of the room as even as
possible at all times, and sound, plump
pumpkins can be bad in June just as
well as in fall or early part of winter.
For the past two years fie has kept his in
the upper hallway leading from the din
jng room. A portiere hangs at the open
ing of the stairway, so that the heat
rises and keeps the upper hall at the
same temperature as the diniDg room.
If a person has a roomy pantrv, well se
cured from frost or dampness, 'the upper
shelf would answer nicely for a storing
place. Or a clothes closet, secured from
cold or dampness, would answer the pur
pose as well. Winter squashes can also
be preserved in like manner. Dampness
and frosted air soon put this line of veg
etables on the road to decay if left long
under its influence.
DON'TS FOR THE FATHERS.
Don't expect the boy to keep np with
you and the hired men and run errands
or carry water at the same time.
Don't lean down too hard when the
boy is turning the grindstone; this is one
of the causes of boys leaving the farm.
Prufoulonal to tho Last.
Alexius Erkel. the leader of the or
chestra at the Buda-Pesth Volk thea
ter, died on the 10th of Jnne. Shortly
before the end came a Jesuit father
urged upon the dying musician the de
sirability of hi accepting the consola
tion of the church. Erkel listened, ap
parently with great interest, to the ex
hortation of hi clerical adviser, and
when he had done remarked in a tone of
tbe deepest conviction:
"What a splendid baritone voicel"
A few momenta afterward he breathed
hi last Frankfurter Zeitnng.